EB's Matt Heywood writes, "The Destiny beta has come and gone, so what is the gaming world to do with itself now? Well, how about checking out a split screen video comparison of the Destiny beta running on the Xbox One and PS4? Just what the doctor ordered? I thought so.
Before checking out the video I just want to offer a few notes on it for reference. The Xbox One footage was captured using the built-in Game DVR app, so the footage is as native looking as possible for that console. A capture card wasn’t used to pull the footage to ensure that the quality was as close as possible to the resolution output of the PS4′s built-in DVR system for a fair comparison. The Xbox One footage was pulled into iMovie using One Drive to further ensure that the video is as close as possible in terms of encoding and resolution to the PS4 version, which was pulled from Facebook, and not a USB drive, and added to iMovie for processing."
Destiny has made over $160 million in MTX revenue, and these numbers only account the data from late 2017 to early 2019.
That's extremely low for microtransactions, especially for a game that's essentially designed around it
This was back when the game wasn't free to play.
The figures are from November 2017 to February 2019 (1 year and 4 months).
Based on that projection, the MTX revenue for Destiny 2 likely would have been closer to ~$240m for 2 years.
Not sure if premium expansions are included in that figure either although ... I'd hope that they are though and that most of the revenue was for actual content like Forsaken.
People spend way too much money on cosmetics.
Seasons($10 and just got bumped to $12) and dungeon keys($10 each, two a year) are through the eververse(micro transaction) store.
So for those two years, in order to play a season, you would pay through micro transactions.
Bungie Marathon will be worse since it's designed around it as well
It makes me sad to agree... but at the same time I am looking forward to giving it a go. Destiny 2 is so far in, I find it difficult to figure out what I am meant to do first.
Let's compare something similar. Apex Legends and its ridiculous $18/$40 skins make EA a billion each year.
For as much as ppl complain how much they hate microtransactions, they sure don’t act like it. No wonder they aren’t going anywhere.
By "people" you're referring to millions and millions of people. Obviously the ones complaining aren't necessarily the same as the ones spending all that money.
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Playing Destiny 1 on PC has been something fans have been requesting for years. It looks like Destiny 1 is now playable on PC via the RPCS3 emulator.
Game looks great on both consoles, but the PS4 has much darker black tones and more vibrant colors overall.
Both look excellent but PS4 has better tones, and smoother palate.
I'll have to agree, both versions look good, but I think the PS4 takes it overall.
both look good but ps4 takes this one easily.
Please stop. Compare the game when it is released.